Poetry, vol. 2
The Dead Poets Society has gained another valuable member from Bulgaria – Kiril Kadiyski.
Have we really lost him?
The two volumes you see before you, dear readers, were compiled by him – he worked diligently and devotedly until the very end to perfecting his old and new works, and, ironically, this turned out to be his first posthumous publication. My very difficult task here is to preface it, involuntarily and, alas, inevitably changing the present tense, which until recently was current in my communication with the poet and friend Kadiyski, to the past tense. So the only audacity – an expression of desperate resistance – that remains to me in the face of such an inexorable and categorical fact as death is to replace the aorist with the imperfect, that is, the past perfect with the past imperfect in an attempt, through such a linguistic game, to retain his presence here and now for at least another moment, if for no other reason than to prolong and reaffirm the feeling (mine) that for the poet, death is nothing more than a convention, an illusion, a hallucination, a mirage, a metaphor; annoying "spam" clogging up the computer of existence and subject to immediate deletion.
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Now Kadiyski and his work have entered a new, different dimension, which I am not yet able to approach with a proven, guaranteed, and reliable move. I am not ready to accompany it with a convincing meta-commentary, but using the matrix of sifting-“canonization,” I will try to trace/predict his future existence through it. Because his entire new career as a poet from here on out is truly yet to come.
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The second volume covers five years – from 2020 to 2025. There are "only" 11 titles in it, but the volume of poems successfully rivals what was created before. This is what the "late" Kadiyski looks like: "Exploded Dreams," "The New Guernica," "Bridges over Lethe," "Exile on Earth," "Starry Hard Labor," "Vivaldi. Daily Rehearsals," "Pot with a Tail," "Are We Brave?," "Between a Double Abyss," "On the Edge of the Abyss," "Forbidden Love."
Kiril Kadiiski
Kiril Kadiiski (1947-2025) is a Bulgarian poet, essayist, translator, and an author of many books, including “Concerts in Heaven” (1979), “Rider Of Marble Horses” (1983), “Time of Sand” (1987), “Poems” (1995), “The Death of the White Swallow” (2001), “Green” (2002). He has translated from French the authors: Mallarme, Villon, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and from Russian: Tyutchev, Bunin, Block, Voloshin, Pasternak. Kadiiski is also the author of the only book with palindromes in the Bulgarian literature and of the poetry anthology “From Villon to Vian”.
The books authored by Kiril Kadiiski have been issued in France (nine books of poetry), Spain, Greece, Serbia, and Romania. His poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Macedonian.
Kiril Kadiiski has won many prestigious awards, among which - “Ivan Franko”, Ukraine; “European Grand Prize for Poetry”, Romania; “Max Jacob”, France.
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